Poems, 1914-1919

<h3><SPAN name="LE_PRINCE_ERRANT" id="LE_PRINCE_ERRANT"></SPAN>LE PRINCE ERRANT</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I am</span> the Prince of unremembered towers<br/></span> <span class="i0">Destroyed before the birth of Babylon;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I was there when all the forest shone<br/></span> <span class="i0">While pale Medea culled her deadly flowers.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I heard the iron weeping of the King,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When Orpheus sang to life his buried joy;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I beheld upon the walls of Troy<br/></span> <span class="i0">The woman who made of death a little thing.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I heard the horn that shook the mountain tall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When Roland lay a-dying, and the call<br/></span> <span class="i0">That fevered Tristram whispered o’er the sea,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And brought Iseult of Cornwall to his side.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I saw the Queen of Egypt like a bride<br/></span> <span class="i0">Go glorious to her dead Mark Antony.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_060" id="page_060"></SPAN>{60}</span>&nbsp; </p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_059" id="page_059"></SPAN>{59}</span>&nbsp; </p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_058" id="page_058"></SPAN>{58}</span>&nbsp; </p> <p class="c"><small> Printed in England<br/> at The Westminster Press<br/> 411a Harrow Road<br/> London W. 9</small></p> <hr class="full" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />